diff --git a/libgphoto2.changes b/libgphoto2.changes
index ed6f5d7..ec769dc 100644
--- a/libgphoto2.changes
+++ b/libgphoto2.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Tue Apr 27 08:54:31 CEST 2010 - meissner@suse.de
+
+- remove the major .la files
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Sun Apr 11 23:25:39 CEST 2010 - meissner@suse.de
 
diff --git a/libgphoto2.spec b/libgphoto2.spec
index c2dfb10..ba63fd9 100644
--- a/libgphoto2.spec
+++ b/libgphoto2.spec
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ License:        LGPLv2.1+
 Group:          Hardware/Camera
 Summary:        A Digital Camera Library
 Version:        2.4.9
-Release:        1
+Release:        2
 Source0:        libgphoto2-%{version}.tar.bz2
 Source1:        baselibs.conf
 BuildRoot:      %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-build
@@ -121,6 +121,10 @@ mv doc/doxygen-output/libgphoto2-api.html apidocs
 fn=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT/%{_libdir}/pkgconfig/libgphoto2_port.pc
 grep -v driverdir= $fn > $fn.new
 mv $fn.new $fn
+# These two should not be required, but the driver .la can stay
+rm $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/%{_libdir}/libgphoto2.la
+rm $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/%{_libdir}/libgphoto2_port.la
+
 %fdupes $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
 
 %clean
@@ -153,9 +157,7 @@ rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
 %{prefix}/bin/gphoto2-config
 %{prefix}/bin/gphoto2-port-config
 %{_libdir}/libgphoto2.so
-%{_libdir}/libgphoto2.la
 %{_libdir}/libgphoto2_port.so
-%{_libdir}/libgphoto2_port.la
 %{_libdir}/pkgconfig/libgphoto2.pc
 %{_libdir}/pkgconfig/libgphoto2_port.pc